Ultimate factors in the winter weight depression of small mammals

Mammalia

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 397-404

  Hansson, L ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; VOLE; WINTER;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE;

EID: 0025631031     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mamm.1990.54.3.397     Document Type: Article

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